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From: Andrew Morton on 8 Jul 2010 13:30 On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:38:22 +0200 Jens Axboe <axboe(a)kernel.dk> wrote: > >> However this: > >> > >> commit 4f9078afb4e083e033aafbbfabe729cb3832aa42 > >> Author: Changli Gao <xiaosuo(a)gmail.com> > >> Date: Tue Jun 29 13:09:18 2010 +0200 > >> > >> splice: direct_splice_actor() should not use pos in sd > >> > >> went into mainline without a cc:stable tag. > > > > I will send an email to stable@. > > BTW, it's not in mainline yet. I know I forgot to mark it as stable, > but I can't tell them to include it before it's in mainline. You could redo the changelog then. But stable(a)kernel.org is cc'ed on these emails and they're splendid chaps ;) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
From: Jens Axboe on 8 Jul 2010 13:40
On 08/07/10 19.25, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:38:22 +0200 Jens Axboe <axboe(a)kernel.dk> wrote: > >>>> However this: >>>> >>>> commit 4f9078afb4e083e033aafbbfabe729cb3832aa42 >>>> Author: Changli Gao <xiaosuo(a)gmail.com> >>>> Date: Tue Jun 29 13:09:18 2010 +0200 >>>> >>>> splice: direct_splice_actor() should not use pos in sd >>>> >>>> went into mainline without a cc:stable tag. >>> >>> I will send an email to stable@. >> >> BTW, it's not in mainline yet. I know I forgot to mark it as stable, >> but I can't tell them to include it before it's in mainline. > > You could redo the changelog then. But stable(a)kernel.org is cc'ed on > these emails and they're splendid chaps ;) But then the Linus monster ends up shouting at me, so I'll rather take a little stable abuse :-) What I've done in the past is just send stable@ a list of commits once they are upstream. Less work for them. Best is remembering the stable CC in the commit, but... -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ |